Serious framerate issues. Hardware is not the problem.

[Nakor]

Alright, the framerate that I am experiencing is causing the game to become unplayable. My computer is quite capable of playing this game, being as I have played games with higher requirements. I have played at the highest and lowest settings and the issue remains at both. I believe that the problem lies in the compatability with my video card. I had a similar issue with Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones, and it was remedied by changing a setting in the hardware.ini file. I would like to know if there is a similar file that would allow me to fix this. My video card is a NVidia GE Force FX 5600 with 256 MB of RAM.

[Bjossi]

If you are running version 1.5 or above, you are experiencing shader model 3.0 slowdowns. The very same thing happened to me, I have a 256 Mb GeforceFX 5700 LE, so our cards aren´t far from being identical.

Turning off the normal options won´t help at all. You will see difference by turning off the following.
"Dynamic Lighting"
"Bloom"
"Warp Effects"

I turned those off and the game ran very smoothly on max settings, 800 x 600, no AA/AF/V-Sync.

[Nakor]

Thank you very much this fixed the issue perfectly

[Bjossi]

No problem. :)